“The philosophy exam was a piece of cake—which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.”
“Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.”
“Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.” - Ashley Montague
“They all laughed at Albert Einstein. They all laughed at Columbus. Unfortunately, they also all laughed at Bozo the Clown.” - William H. Jefferys
“You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can’t sit on it for long.” - Boris Yeltsin
“Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening all at once.”
“Quantum particles: the dreams that stuff is made of.” - David Moser
“What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream? Or what’s worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?” - Woody Allen
“I like having a machine called ‘elvis’ on the network because that way, I can say ‘ping elvis’ and have it come back with ‘elvis is alive’” - Carl Shipley
“The quickest way to a man’s heart is through his chest, with an axe.”
“I’ve got Parkinson’s disease. And he’s got mine.”
“They say that after a brush with death the world looks different and that was true for me, but by the time I caught my breath, I realized that it was because I had lost my glasses” - Michael Dorris
“The waking have one world in common. Sleepers meanwhile turn aside, each into a darkness of his own” - Heraclitus
“It’s always best to tell the truth because when you lie you must remember too much” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“The voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new horizons, but in seeing with new eyes” - Marcel Proust
“Magick is as mysterious as mathematics, as empirical as poetry, as uncertain as golf and as dependent on the personal equation as love.” - Aleister Crowley